Shoot plates with a light field camera

- So Rob, you mentioned that we have a light field camera,…this particular one is from a company called Lytro,…- Yup.…- I own their first generation camera,…which is a cool toy.…It was fun, it's interesting, it made these…cool living photos that you could post to the web…where you change the focus, but this…is a whole new level.…- Yeah, the team at Lytro basically took the tact of,…if we're going to be taken seriously by photographers…who really, you know, can exploit this technology,…the first, you know, camera was this big,…a little square thing, easily lost,…I lost mine, to be honest with you,…I lost it on a train somewhere,…and this is kind of the next generation,…this is the Lytro ILLUM, and this is a light field camera,…now Rich.…

What is a light field camera?…- The light field camera is a pretty…straightforward approach, essentially what it's doing…is it's traditional type image sensor,…but then when it captures the information,…it's capturing a lot of information,…not just the light, but the direction of the light,…

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11/28/2016

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